Super Spaniard Eugenio Chacarra was flying first class after he briliantly birdied the 18th hole on Sunday to win the 2026 KLM Open by a stroke in Amsterdam.
Finland’s Oliver Lindell had put the pressure on the long-time leader as a round of 69, capped by a birdie of his own, took him alongside Chacarra at ten under par.
Chacarra responded in kind with an excellent approach setting up a two-putt from around 20 feet to seal the crown at The International host course.
Dropped shots for overnight leaders Sebastian Söderberg at the first hole and Chacarra at the third allowed Marcus Armitage and Maximilian Steinlechner to take a share of the lead with two birdies apiece.
SPAINISH FLYING CLASS AFTER CAPTURING #KLMOPEN ….
Eugenio Chacarra birdies the last to capture a second @DPWorldTour by a shot in Amsterdam
And thrilled to win with his dad present: “It’s nice to win with my dad here. He’s given everything for me since I was little… pic.twitter.com/oXinsbFmdP
— Fatiha (@TOURMISS) June 7, 2026
Söderberg birdied the fourth but Chacarra seized control approaching the turn, birdieing the eighth and ninth to open up a three-shot lead at 11 under as his closest challengers dropped back.
A bogey at the 12th brought the chasing pack back into contention, with Lindell birdieing the 14th to move within one. Chacarra responded immediately with a birdie of his own before Lindell and Steinlechner both picked up shots at the 15th to emerge as his main challengers.
While Chacarra dropped a shot at the 16th, Steinlechner bogeyed the par-three 17th and Lindell’s par left him just one behind heading to the last.
Chacarra went desperately close to a virtual clinching birdie at the 17th, which would have been only the fifth of the day on that hole, and Lindell asked the question with a closing birdie to move alongside him at the summit as the Spaniard prepared to hit his approach shot.
He duly found the back of the green and ran his first putt down close to the pin, taking deep breaths as his playing partners finished up before the tap-in to clinch his second DP World Tour win, after last year’s Hero Indian Open.
Chacarra spoke after Saturday’s round of how he relishes tough conditions and Sunday in Amsterdam certainly delivered, with high winds throughout. The low round of the day was just a three-under-par 68 from Marcel Siem, while only eight players shot in the 60s.
Lindell, who birdied three of the last four holes and has made the cut in all 16 of his DP World Tour starts this season, was left to settle for second on his own while Angel Ayora eagled the last to join Steinlechner, Söderberg and Joe Dean in third on eight under.
Julien Guerrier and Danny Willett were a further shot back with the top ten completed by Yanhan Zhou at six under and Lindell’s fellow Finn Sami Välimäki at five under.
Player quotes
Eugenio Chacarra: “Shot of my career, maybe! That was a little ‘tweener’ but with adrenaline I’m going to try to hit this one hard, it flew 10-15 longer than we thought. So, proud to see the ball land on the green and then took a nice first putt to give me a putt that you always dream of, a putt that you can’t really miss to win a tournament.
“(I was thinking about) all the people that have been with me through my career.
“It’s nice to win with my dad here. He’s given everything for me since I was little so it was something very unique and I think of him, for sure.
“Obviously it’s something we can’t control but the wind was there, it was changing and it was tough.
“The pins were really tough, I thought, today, tough to hit it close after a good shot and there was always something close to them so like I said, we had a good gameplan, tried to be in the safe spot.
“The only one I didn’t do very good was the 16th, I thinned it a little, I wanted to be five long and I mis-hit it and went to probably one of the worst spots, but I’m very proud of how I played the 17th and 18th holes, the hard work I’ve been doing, and it came through.”
